This was a General Letter to the Nikken Distributors in Holland, by Gerard Nederpel and Tineke Verton, written in August 2004.   Although this was written about Nikken, the principles are the same for many of the MLMs around the world. Read more…

Details about becoming a Silpada Designs representative, current as of September 4, 2007. Why Silpada Designs Is Unique Silpada Designs is the original and fastest growing .925 Sterling Silver Jewelry Home Show company in the United States! Our handcrafted jewelry Read more…

One of our members posted on the discussion board some marketing materials from Silpada Designs, a multi-level marketing company selling jewelry. The company is promoting the fact that there aren’t a lot of Silpada distributors yet: We’re growing rapidly, but Read more…

Robert FitzPatrick of Pyramid Scheme Alert, recently brought attention to the real political agenda of the Direct Selling Association (DSA). The DSA is a organization to which multi-level marketing (MLM) companies like Mary Kay belong. Mary Kay cites their membership Read more…

Here’s a script that one of our readers says  Mary Kay nsd Allison LaMarr uses when pushing the big Mary Kay inventories. That’s right ladies! Beg, borrow or steal to get the money for inventory. It doesn’t matter how you Read more…

How many times have you been told that you must wear Mary Kay “from head to toe”? I remember feeling disloyal if I used any products were a brand other than Mary Kay, even if those products worked better for Read more…

Written by Lazy Gardens Breaking down the real profits a Mary Kay consultant makes from a skin care class. My neighbor, whom I shall call “Boopsy”, recently signed up with MK and had her first party Friday, from 1-3 PM. Read more…

Have you ever heard about how sales directors and national sales directors “adopt” consultants as their own? Have you ever heard them talk about how they “get no money” for adopting people but they do it because that’s what Mary Read more…

This demeaning email from a Mary Kay national sales directors to all the peons who need to work harder (so she can get a bigger paycheck) has been circulating for years. Pat Fortenberry got filthy rich from swindling women in Read more…

A review of Mary Kay Cosmetics and our website, Pink Truth with an entertaining account of being introduced to Mary Kay, complete with a discussion of the entertaining (yet factual) discourse received on this site. Excerpts from the article: